UNITED STATES
TheMediaReport
Dave Pierre
Some journalists simply don’t know when to let an old story line die. As we first reported at the time over two-and-a-half years ago, Michael Rezendes of The Boston Globe published two splashy front-page stories about the failures of the Jesuit order in Chicago years ago in its handling of the case of one of its abusive priests, Rev. Donald J. Maguire.
Well, Rezendes must have thought he could make one more trip to the well by now claiming that Pope Francis’ new prosecutor at the Vatican for clergy sex abuse, Rev. Robert J. Geisinger, was once “the second-highest-ranking official among the Chicago Jesuits in the 1990s” and actually “allowed” Maguire to remain in ministry when he was there.
The Globe’s dramatic charge, which the paper trumpeted as a Sunday, front-page story, was later picked up by national wire services and several big newspapers.
The problem? Rezendes’ claim is bogus.
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